as promised.....pictures after the "octopuss attack!!!"

[joekr]

as promised per the "octopus incident" :rollface: no more dumb posts, I promise!!!

http://home.rochester.rr.com/jk1111/2.jpg

http://home.rochester.rr.com/jk1111/4.jpg

http://home.rochester.rr.com/jk1111/5.jpg

http://home.rochester.rr.com/jk1111/7.jpg

http://home.rochester.rr.com/jk1111/8.jpg

http://home.rochester.rr.com/jk1111/9.jpg

http://home.rochester.rr.com/jk1111/10.jpg

[dgodwin]

Nice sharp photos! What kind of camera did you use?

[joekr]

thanks!! canon 10d w/ a macro lense. I did touch them up in Photoshop, but only to remove the little pieces of debris...

[Gary Majchrzak]

As dank11 would say: Hey! I know that stuff. BTW- those are the orange Zoanthids I'm looking for, although the frags I got from fujimo Bob are much brighter.

[joekr]

I should have included this in this original post that this is not my tank. I took some pictures at a LFS here in Rochester and these are a couple of the shots. I personally have a 20 gallon and can only dream of having some of those zoos!!

[nf4sevenw]

i was gonna say that looks alot like toms tank

[joekr]

it is. :) In my original post regarding the supposed octopuss I did say that I took the pics at the reef shop here in Rochester...the whole night has been nuts and I spaced the info on the picture post here...should have given credit where it's due!

I can only hope to have a tank someday as beautiful as Tom's!

[Gary Majchrzak]

Originally posted by joekr
I took the pics at the reef shop here in Rochester
Hey! That's why I know the stuff. ;)

[joekr]

I have been getting pretty heavy into digital photography and I asked Tom if I could hang out and take some pictures during a weekday. Ended up dropping 2 hours there last week and I got about 70 shots that I feel real confident about...I'm hopefull that when he gets their web site up and running, I can do some work for him...

Right now I'm a Unix admin and I enjoy photography about 10x more than what I am currently doing. There's a lot of starving photographers out there though, so I won't be giving up my day job, but this kind of detail work just puts a big smile on my face!! :) :)

[Gary Majchrzak]

So the truth comes out about the Blue Ring Octo/Xenia shot- you knew exactly what you were doing!
How about a shot of your 20?

[joekr]

truth be known, the new camera is only 2 1/2 weeks old and I've taken over 1300 pictures all ready :eek2: but many were junk. The irony is that most of the shots I took of my tank were crappy! The time I spent at the Reef shop was some of the best work I've done so far with my semi-pro stuff. The feedback I'm getting from friends and family (along with Tom and Rob) is all good, so I guess I work better under the gun!

I'll take some shots tomorrow when everyone wakes up in my tank and update this post...everything is asleep right now....

I was in panic mode over the blue octo!!!!

;)

[Stoli]

Joe:

Based on those shots, consider yourself completely redeemed. Great work.

[ReeferMac]

Hey now, wait a minute! Don't let 'em off the hook yet. I was going to get him to buy Pizza for the next meet... ;)

- Mac

[joekr]

only if it's a 7.99 dominos special!!! I just spent way too much money on photography equipment!!!! :)

Hopefully this incident will be forgotten someday (like, before I retire!!!!!!)

[ReeferMac]

LOL! I believe you've entered the realms of infamy at this point, Joe. ;)

- Mac

[nf4sevenw]

yea, blue octo/xenia its hard to forget that

[joekr]

well, I was going to setup a 10 gallon Walmart special frag tank soon....guess I'm committed now!!!!!

Maybe if I have some good stuff to trade, in a couple of years this incident will somewhat forgotten!!!

[ReeferMac]

Originally posted by joekr
Maybe if I have some good stuff to trade, in a couple of years this incident will somewhat forgotten!!!


Are you kidding? Oh that's right, you're new to this group. ;)
I still get razzed over my tang eating the tip off my finger (yeah, still holding it up for you to see Allen... ;) ). That was... 3 years ago?

- Mac

[joekr]

that's it...my brother suggested I change my user name and re-register under a hotmail account....I'm off to www.hotmail.com!!!!

;)

[joekr]

as promised...some pics of my tank....these were quick and dirty, so they aren't great but all right....

http://home.rochester.rr.com/jk1111/blue.jpg

http://home.rochester.rr.com/jk1111/frag.jpg

http://home.rochester.rr.com/jk1111/newzoos.jpg

http://home.rochester.rr.com/jk1111/polyps.jpg

http://home.rochester.rr.com/jk1111/xenia.jpg

http://home.rochester.rr.com/jk1111/zoos1.jpg

[ReeferMac]

LOL! Sorry bud, but we had a guy try that here once before too (I smell a fish , anyone?), we're too sharp for that to work. Might as well take your lumps, and ask if anyone's got some free-frags to mount next to your new Limited Edition Octoxenia spp. ;)
Nice Pics BTW, Depth of field is impressive (have to tell me how to hit that DMax too!).

- Mac